The Authority Control Interest Group ALA Midwinter meeting will held in the Grand Hyatt Denver Mt. Sopris room. General reports and updates will be provided by LC, LAC, and OCLC regarding authority projects. In addition John Espley from the RDA/MARC Working Group and Philip Young from the SAC-F/G Subcommittee will each give updates and facilitate brief open-forum sessions to discuss what the cataloging community wants/needs to see. Jimmie Lundgren will motivate and instruct others to promote change in the MARC authority format by sharing the steps taken in the successful MARBI proposal to add geographic coordinates to the MARC authority records. A business meeting will conclude the session.<br>

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=== THE ROLE OF THE PROFESSIONAL LIBRARIAN IN TECHNICAL SERVICE INTEREST GROUP ALA Mid-Winter 2009<br><br> ===

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'''Tough Times Hit Technical Services: How T.S. Librarians are Coping with the Economic Recession<br><br>'''

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The economic woes confronting all of us at the local, state, and national level are pressing libraries of all sizes and affiliations to do more with less. The impact of these constraints on individual librarians working in Technical Services will be the topic of discussion for the ALA Midwinter meeting of the ALCTS Interest Group: The Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services. If you’re planning to attend the conference, you are cordially invited to join us Sunday afternoon in a lively conversation of shared personal experiences. Hear how others are making preparations to address the effects of these financial shortfalls. We’ll also provide a supportive setting to collectively formulate potential strategies to further cope with these challenges. A brief business meeting will follow the open forum. We look forward to seeing you in Denver!<br><br>

Presenter: Jin Ma, Catalog/Metadata Librarian, Newman Library, Baruch College, The City University of New York<br>

Presenter: Jin Ma, Catalog/Metadata Librarian, Newman Library, Baruch College, The City University of New York<br>

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The speaker will give an overview of her findings of metadata implementation in ARL member libraries: what kinds of projects/initiatives have been undertaken, what types of digital objects are associated with metadata, what schemas and tools are used to create metadata, how to ensure metadata quality and interoperability, who are creating metadata, what skills metadata staff need and how they acquire those skills, and the organizational changes and challenges resulting from the adoption of metadata.<br>

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The speaker will discuss her observations of the findings and the main themes emerged from the metadata practices in libraries. She will also identify the roles and responsibilities of catalogers in metadata implementation and the implications of metadata practices for the cataloging divisions, technical services, and the libraries.<br>

The speaker will discuss her observations of the findings and the main themes emerged from the metadata practices in libraries. She will also identify the roles and responsibilities of catalogers in metadata implementation and the implications of metadata practices for the cataloging divisions, technical services, and the libraries.<br>

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'''Title: How to Improve Interoperability of Unique Metadata Fields for Special Collections''' (20 minutes)<br>

Presenters: Myung-Ja Han, Metadata Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christine Cho, MSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>

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In recent years many libraries have created digital collections derived from their special collections, rare book collections and archives, in order to provide greater access to these hidden resources. The items in these digital collections need unique metadata fields that play an essential role in managing and describing 'special resources,' and which provide rich contextual information in native environment. CONTENTdm, one of the most widely used digital resource management tools, gives flexibility to its users to create and use such unique field names. However when the metadata is exported through OAI-PMH to service providers, these locally created field names are mapped to simple Dublin Core elements that cannot fully describe what the local elements originally intended to describe.<br>

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Researchers analyzed 21 digital collections from 15 institutions that are created with CONTENTdm to see what kind of unique fields are used for special collections and how these fields are represented in service providers' environments.<br>

Researchers analyzed 21 digital collections from 15 institutions that are created with CONTENTdm to see what kind of unique fields are used for special collections and how these fields are represented in service providers' environments.<br>

Athena Salaba, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University<br>

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Presenter: Magda El-Sherbini, Head of Cataloging, Ohio State University Libraries<br>

Presenter: Magda El-Sherbini, Head of Cataloging, Ohio State University Libraries<br>

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Libraries are raising the question of what services they should provide to users and what role libraries can play in providing bibliographic access without diminishing the value of the catalog.

Libraries are raising the question of what services they should provide to users and what role libraries can play in providing bibliographic access without diminishing the value of the catalog.

This presentation will contribute to this discussion by revisiting the question of the cataloging standards, and offering alternative approaches and ideas to cataloging. It will discuss innovative staffing solutions that can reduce the cost of cataloging and help overcome the problem of staffing and staff training.<br>

This presentation will contribute to this discussion by revisiting the question of the cataloging standards, and offering alternative approaches and ideas to cataloging. It will discuss innovative staffing solutions that can reduce the cost of cataloging and help overcome the problem of staffing and staff training.<br>

The presentation will address the current status of the Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (KBART) project, with particular attention to how it will benefit publishers, librarians, and ultimately (and most importantly), library users. We will discuss what KBART has done in the past year, what effect we believe the initiative will have in the e-resources supply chain, what will be coming next, and what challenges remain.<br>

The presentation will address the current status of the Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (KBART) project, with particular attention to how it will benefit publishers, librarians, and ultimately (and most importantly), library users. We will discuss what KBART has done in the past year, what effect we believe the initiative will have in the e-resources supply chain, what will be coming next, and what challenges remain.<br>

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2. '''Beth R. Bernhardt''' (Electronic Resources Librarian, University of North Carolina Greensboro): Dealing with Free E-Journals: Are they worth the effort?

2. '''Beth R. Bernhardt''' (Electronic Resources Librarian, University of North Carolina Greensboro): Dealing with Free E-Journals: Are they worth the effort?

The number of "free" electronic journals available on the internet continues to increase. This presentation will focus on answering questions such as how can we find these journals, should we make an effort to provide access for our patrons, and what is the potential cost for maintaining them?<br>

The number of "free" electronic journals available on the internet continues to increase. This presentation will focus on answering questions such as how can we find these journals, should we make an effort to provide access for our patrons, and what is the potential cost for maintaining them?<br>

The presentation will help you understand what open source is all about and show you how the Koha Open Source Automation system can not only handle your serials in the library catalog, but provide better services to our patrons.<br>

The presentation will help you understand what open source is all about and show you how the Koha Open Source Automation system can not only handle your serials in the library catalog, but provide better services to our patrons.<br>

The ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group will meet at ALA Midwinter on Monday, January 26, 2009, from 1:30-3:30 pm in Room 206 at the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14 St. Our guest will be Ann J. Wolpert, who is Director of Libraries at MIT and Chair of the Board of MIT Press, which is widely recognized for innovation in electronic publishing. She will talk about the changing nature of scholarly communication, what MIT has been doing in this area, its renowned repository, its efforts in the area of education and outreach to faculty, and how to position libraries for the 21st century. Please join us for what promises to be an engaging and informative discussion of scholarly communication trends and initiatives. This is a unique opportunity to explore the vision of someone who is at the forefront of innovation and change in the realm of scholarly communication.

The ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group will meet at ALA Midwinter on Monday, January 26, 2009, from 1:30-3:30 pm in Room 206 at the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14 St. Our guest will be Ann J. Wolpert, who is Director of Libraries at MIT and Chair of the Board of MIT Press, which is widely recognized for innovation in electronic publishing. She will talk about the changing nature of scholarly communication, what MIT has been doing in this area, its renowned repository, its efforts in the area of education and outreach to faculty, and how to position libraries for the 21st century. Please join us for what promises to be an engaging and informative discussion of scholarly communication trends and initiatives. This is a unique opportunity to explore the vision of someone who is at the forefront of innovation and change in the realm of scholarly communication.

Updates and presentations will be given in the first portion of the meeting followed by a business meeting open to all. Representatives from Library of Congress, Library and Archives Canada, OCLC, and the RDA/MARC Working Group will give updates on the developments impacting authority control. Discussion time will be provided to allow audience input into the RDA/MARC Working Group development. A special presentation on the OCLC Next Generation Catalog will illustrate how technology changes may impact the future of authority control.

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The Authority Control Interest Group invites you to attend its ALA Midwinter meeting in the Grand Hyatt Denver Mt. Sopris room. General reports and updates will be provided by LC, LAC, and OCLC regarding authority projects. In addition John Espley from the RDA/MARC Working Group and Philip Young from the SAC-F/G Subcommittee will each give updates and facilitate brief open-forum sessions to discuss what the cataloging community wants/needs to see. Jimmie Lundgren will motivate and instruct others to promote change in the MARC authority format by sharing the steps taken in the successful MARBI proposal to add geographic coordinates to the MARC authority records. A business meeting will conclude the session.

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#Herbert Van de Sompel at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Carl Lagoze at Cornell University will talk about Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE). Over the past two years, OAI-ORE has gathered experts to develop standards for the identification and description of aggregations of Web resources. These standards provide the foundation for applications and services to improve the utility the aggregations that are common on the Web including multiple format documents in institutional repositories, scholarly data sets, and online photo collections. The OAI-ORE standards leverage the core Web architecture and integrate with other emerging developments in Web 2.0. This talk will describe the core aspects of those standards and the applications and contexts in which they may be used.

#Herbert Van de Sompel at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Carl Lagoze at Cornell University will talk about Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE). Over the past two years, OAI-ORE has gathered experts to develop standards for the identification and description of aggregations of Web resources. These standards provide the foundation for applications and services to improve the utility the aggregations that are common on the Web including multiple format documents in institutional repositories, scholarly data sets, and online photo collections. The OAI-ORE standards leverage the core Web architecture and integrate with other emerging developments in Web 2.0. This talk will describe the core aspects of those standards and the applications and contexts in which they may be used.

#Todd Carpenter at NISO will give updates on new initiatives at the National Information Standards Organization.

#Todd Carpenter at NISO will give updates on new initiatives at the National Information Standards Organization.

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The demand for new ways for users to discover relevant library resources has grown tremendously in the past few years. Application development and deployment has been limited, however, by the need to interoperate with any of a variety of integrated library systems. In 2008, a Digital Library Federation task group published a set of recommendations for standard functions that could be used by discovery applications to obtain metadata and other services from any ILS. They included a basic level of ILS-application interoperability that was endorsed by most ILS vendors, as well as more advanced levels that may allow even richer interactions in the future.

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==[http://www.ala.org/yalsa YALSA] Interest Groups==

==[http://www.ala.org/yalsa YALSA] Interest Groups==

*<b>YALSA Discussion & Interest Group Open House:</b> 4:00 - 5:30: Want to get more involved in YALSA? All of [http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/aboutyalsab/discussion.cfm YALSA's Discussion and Interest Groups] will be at this event. Come learn a little about each and decide which one(s) you'd like to opt into, or learn how to start a new one. Room: Colorado Convention Center Room 203.

*<b>YALSA Discussion & Interest Group Open House:</b> 4:00 - 5:30: Want to get more involved in YALSA? All of [http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/aboutyalsab/discussion.cfm YALSA's Discussion and Interest Groups] will be at this event. Come learn a little about each and decide which one(s) you'd like to opt into, or learn how to start a new one. Room: Colorado Convention Center Room 203.

Name: ALA Games and Gaming Member Initiative Group
Event: Business meeting and discussion of current initiatives
Date: Saturday, January 24th
Time: 10:00-12:00am
Place: Mount Columbia Room, Grant Hyatt

Come talk about gaming in libraries! This meeting is open to all. The goals of the meeting are to:
1. Talk about and plan gaming activities for the ALA Annual conference
2. Provide updates about current initiatives involving gaming in all types of libraries.

Join us to share what you are doing or just to listen to the great ideas.

For more information, contact Scott Nicholson, the chair of the GGMIG, at srnichol@syr.edu.

Join the discussion around expanding library services in virtual communities like Second Life and help explore ways for ALA to improve the visibility of libraries and library workers to residents of virtual worlds.

Here are directions for walking from the Convention Center to Auraria Library:

The campus is just west of the Convention Center, across Speer Boulevard (and Cherry Creek). There are a number of streets that cross Speer Boulevard and go over the Creek.

From the Convention Center, walk west on Champa , crossing Speer and over Cherry Creek. As soon as you cross Speer, turn slightly to the right into the central part of campus. You will see a church, St. Elizabeth. The church is on St. Francis Way (11th Street on Google Maps) and is a distinctive landmark. There are parking lots and a parking station that is usually staffed. The library is next to the church. It is a two story white building. Walk past the front of the church toward the library, you will be approaching the back of the library. Turn left after the church to get to the front of the library.

The Authority Control Interest Group ALA Midwinter meeting will held in the Grand Hyatt Denver Mt. Sopris room. General reports and updates will be provided by LC, LAC, and OCLC regarding authority projects. In addition John Espley from the RDA/MARC Working Group and Philip Young from the SAC-F/G Subcommittee will each give updates and facilitate brief open-forum sessions to discuss what the cataloging community wants/needs to see. Jimmie Lundgren will motivate and instruct others to promote change in the MARC authority format by sharing the steps taken in the successful MARBI proposal to add geographic coordinates to the MARC authority records. A business meeting will conclude the session.

The Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group (NRMIG) within ALCTS would like to announce that they will hold a discussion on taxonomy development at their ALA Midwinter meeting, set to take place on Sunday, January 25, from 8-10 a.m. (place to be announced). The discussion will be led by Laura Dorricott, Project Delivery Manager of Taxonomy Services for Dow Jones Client Solutions. We invite you to participate in this discussion, also to stay afterwards for the business portion of the NRMIG meeting.

Erin Stalberg
Chair, NRMIG

THE ROLE OF THE PROFESSIONAL LIBRARIAN IN TECHNICAL SERVICE INTEREST GROUP ALA Mid-Winter 2009

Tough Times Hit Technical Services: How T.S. Librarians are Coping with the Economic Recession

The economic woes confronting all of us at the local, state, and national level are pressing libraries of all sizes and affiliations to do more with less. The impact of these constraints on individual librarians working in Technical Services will be the topic of discussion for the ALA Midwinter meeting of the ALCTS Interest Group: The Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services. If you’re planning to attend the conference, you are cordially invited to join us Sunday afternoon in a lively conversation of shared personal experiences. Hear how others are making preparations to address the effects of these financial shortfalls. We’ll also provide a supportive setting to collectively formulate potential strategies to further cope with these challenges. A brief business meeting will follow the open forum. We look forward to seeing you in Denver!

Title: Metadata in ARL Libraries (20 minutes)Powerpoint presentation
Presenter: Jin Ma, Catalog/Metadata Librarian, Newman Library, Baruch College, The City University of New York

Description: The presentation will assess the current metadata practices and trends in ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries, based on the survey “Metadata” conducted in spring 2007 (SPEC Kit 298: Metadata), a collaborative effort with the staff at the Association of Research Libraries.

The speaker will give an overview of her findings of metadata implementation in ARL member libraries: what kinds of projects/initiatives have been undertaken, what types of digital objects are associated with metadata, what schemas and tools are used to create metadata, how to ensure metadata quality and interoperability, who are creating metadata, what skills metadata staff need and how they acquire those skills, and the organizational changes and challenges resulting from the adoption of metadata.

The speaker will discuss her observations of the findings and the main themes emerged from the metadata practices in libraries. She will also identify the roles and responsibilities of catalogers in metadata implementation and the implications of metadata practices for the cataloging divisions, technical services, and the libraries.

Title: How to Improve Interoperability of Unique Metadata Fields for Special Collections (20 minutes)Powerpoint presentation
Presenters: Myung-Ja Han, Metadata Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christine Cho, MSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Description: In recent years many libraries have created digital collections derived from their special collections, rare book collections and archives, in order to provide greater access to these hidden resources. The items in these digital collections need unique metadata fields that play an essential role in managing and describing 'special resources,' and which provide rich contextual information in native environment. CONTENTdm, one of the most widely used digital resource management tools, gives flexibility to its users to create and use such unique field names. However when the metadata is exported through OAI-PMH to service providers, these locally created field names are mapped to simple Dublin Core elements that cannot fully describe what the local elements originally intended to describe.

Researchers analyzed 21 digital collections from 15 institutions that are created with CONTENTdm to see what kind of unique fields are used for special collections and how these fields are represented in service providers' environments.

This presentation will provide common characteristics of these unique metadata fields for the special collections and best practices for creating and mapping special collections metadata using CONTENTdm.

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Part II: Next Generation Cataloging, Standards and Quality

Title: FRBRizing Legacy Data: Issues and Challenges (20 minutes)Powerpoint presentationFRBR Project - related presentations
Presenters: Yin Zhang, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University;
Athena Salaba, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University
Description: In this presentation, we will report on and discuss the issues and challenges we faced when applying the OCLC Workset Algorithm to FRBRize the Library of Congress collection. The presentation will cover
(1) how existing MARC records were used to identify FRBR work entities,
(2) what issues and challenges the process involved, and
(3) what we did to address those issues and challenges.

Title: Cataloging Quality: Problems and Potential Solutions (20 minutes)Powerpoint presentation
Presenter: Magda El-Sherbini, Head of Cataloging, Ohio State University Libraries
Description: Cataloging and providing bibliographic control has recently been the center of several important discussions. Many of these discussions seem to focus on the practical aspects of costs, staffing and training of new staff. They also address the broader question of the need to follow cataloging standards.
Libraries are raising the question of what services they should provide to users and what role libraries can play in providing bibliographic access without diminishing the value of the catalog.
This presentation will contribute to this discussion by revisiting the question of the cataloging standards, and offering alternative approaches and ideas to cataloging. It will discuss innovative staffing solutions that can reduce the cost of cataloging and help overcome the problem of staffing and staff training.

1. Peter McCracken (Co-founder & Director of Research, Serials Solutions): A KBART Update - Improving Patrons' Access to Electronic Resources.
The presentation will address the current status of the Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (KBART) project, with particular attention to how it will benefit publishers, librarians, and ultimately (and most importantly), library users. We will discuss what KBART has done in the past year, what effect we believe the initiative will have in the e-resources supply chain, what will be coming next, and what challenges remain.Media:ALA2009_KBART.pdf

2. Beth R. Bernhardt (Electronic Resources Librarian, University of North Carolina Greensboro): Dealing with Free E-Journals: Are they worth the effort?
The number of "free" electronic journals available on the internet continues to increase. This presentation will focus on answering questions such as how can we find these journals, should we make an effort to provide access for our patrons, and what is the potential cost for maintaining them?

3. Nicole E. Engard (Open Source Evangelist, LibLime): Serials Management in KOHA’s open source library software.
The presentation will help you understand what open source is all about and show you how the Koha Open Source Automation system can not only handle your serials in the library catalog, but provide better services to our patrons.

ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group

The ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group will meet at ALA Midwinter on Monday, January 26, 2009, from 1:30-3:30 pm in Room 206 at the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14 St. Our guest will be Ann J. Wolpert, who is Director of Libraries at MIT and Chair of the Board of MIT Press, which is widely recognized for innovation in electronic publishing. She will talk about the changing nature of scholarly communication, what MIT has been doing in this area, its renowned repository, its efforts in the area of education and outreach to faculty, and how to position libraries for the 21st century. Please join us for what promises to be an engaging and informative discussion of scholarly communication trends and initiatives. This is a unique opportunity to explore the vision of someone who is at the forefront of innovation and change in the realm of scholarly communication.

a joint presentation by
Peter McCracken, Co-Founder and Director of Research at Serials Solutions

Steven Shadle, Serials Access Librarian at the University of Washington

The topic promises to engage wide interest even beyond the serials
cataloging community, so plan now to put this Forum on your Event Planner!

for the Committee,
Christopher H. Walker, Chair

Library Assessment Member Initiative Group

Library Assessment Member Initiative Group

Name: Library Assessment Member Initiative Group

Date: Sunday 1/25/2009

Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Colorado Convention Center, Room 304

Open meeting – all are welcome

This is a call for agenda items! You will recall that our purpose is:
To explore and nurture a growing library assessment community of librarians, researchers, and administrators from all types of libraries and to further an understanding of the library assessment process.

What do you want to:
Discuss
Plan for
Take action on
Coordinate or cooperate with
Co-sponsor
Other...

While the number of tools for making and distributing culture has exploded in the last half-century, it is hard to find a tool for preserving those ephemeral performances, installations, and digital artifacts. Forging the Future, a consortium of museums and cultural heritage organizations, aims to fill that gap with a toolset based on preservation standards and strategies.

This presentation focuses on two of the tools: the Variable Media Questionnaire (VMQ),an interactive preservation database, and the Media Art Notation System (MANS) developed as a metadata schema to contain data gathered from the VMQ Presenters will discuss how MANS compares and differs from existing preservation metatdata standards.

9:30-9:45 Poster Sessions and Projects Intro
Kathleen Frear, Floppy Disk Preservation at the University of Chicago
Martha Horan, A Needs Assessment at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
Sharon Fitzgerald, Marilyn Lutz, Forging the Future: New Tools for Variable Media Art Preservation

Large-scale digitization, shared print storage and changing attitudes about libraries raise questions about how we manage our preservation programs so that they meet local needs and support broader efforts to sustain the intellectual record. A panel of invited experts will present research and participate in a discussion on the ways that local preservation efforts can intersect with national trends in collection management and library development.

Name: Heads of Library Technology Interest Group (HoLT)
Event: Midwinter discussion and business meeting
Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009
Time: 10:30a-12p
Place: To be announced

The Heads of Library Technology Interest Group (HoLT) provides a forum and support network for people with administrative responsibility for computing and technology in a library setting. HoLT provides timely programming for the ALA Annual Conference. Our main topic for the Midwinter Meeting in Denver will be HoLTalk. HoLTalk is lively discussion on current and interesting technology topics. Please email your topic ideas prior to the meeting to richard.wayne@utsouthwestern.edu or bring them to the meeting.

Richard Wayne
Chair, HoLT

LITA and Joint LITA Interest Groups

Brief summaries, copied from the LITA Wiki, excluding HoLT (above).

Authority Control Interest Group (LITA-ALCTS/CCS)

Sunday, 1:30-5:30 p.m.

The Authority Control Interest Group invites you to attend its ALA Midwinter meeting in the Grand Hyatt Denver Mt. Sopris room. General reports and updates will be provided by LC, LAC, and OCLC regarding authority projects. In addition John Espley from the RDA/MARC Working Group and Philip Young from the SAC-F/G Subcommittee will each give updates and facilitate brief open-forum sessions to discuss what the cataloging community wants/needs to see. Jimmie Lundgren will motivate and instruct others to promote change in the MARC authority format by sharing the steps taken in the successful MARBI proposal to add geographic coordinates to the MARC authority records. A business meeting will conclude the session.

SEE ALCTS 2.1 above for program presentation handouts.

Distance Learning Interest Group

The LITA Distance Learning Interest Group discusses the use of technology to support distance learning. We talk about traditional educational technologies such as course management systems, contemporary technologies such as blogs and wikis, and emerging technology such as microblogging and livestreaming video.

Internet Resources and Services Interest Group (IRSIG)

Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-noon

Our agenda includes a summary of IRSIG purpose and recent activities, planning for the IRSIG program for ALA Annual Conference 2009, and discussion of future programs and activities.

JPEG2000 Interest Group

Saturday, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

The JPEG2000 Interest Group will be having an unmoderated discussion and information sharing session. Likely topics include the recently released djatoka server-side JPEG2000 rendering toolkit and the concept of “visually lossless” compression.

Public Libraries Technology Interest Group

The group will be meeting to finalize our program for annual (on online summer reading programs). We'll not be having a discussion, but anyone interested in the group or program for annual is welcome to join us.

Standards Interest Group

Saturday, 4-5:30 p.m.

The LITA Standards Interest Group is pleased to present two topics for discussion at ALA 2009 Midwinter Meeting:

Herbert Van de Sompel at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Carl Lagoze at Cornell University will talk about Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE). Over the past two years, OAI-ORE has gathered experts to develop standards for the identification and description of aggregations of Web resources. These standards provide the foundation for applications and services to improve the utility the aggregations that are common on the Web including multiple format documents in institutional repositories, scholarly data sets, and online photo collections. The OAI-ORE standards leverage the core Web architecture and integrate with other emerging developments in Web 2.0. This talk will describe the core aspects of those standards and the applications and contexts in which they may be used.

Todd Carpenter at NISO will give updates on new initiatives at the National Information Standards Organization.

Next Generation Catalogs Interest Group

We will have presentations and discussion about two examples of recent next generation catalog endeavors.

Beth Jefferson (Founder of Bibliocommons) will share real world examples and implications of “Transforming online library catalogs from searchable inventory systems into engaging social discovery environments”.

John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania Libraries and chair of the Digital Library Federation's ILS-DI Task Group will “Outline the DLF ILS-DI recommendations, describe some of the activities inspired by or related to the recommendations, and discuss what fruit they can bear”.
The demand for new ways for users to discover relevant library resources has grown tremendously in the past few years. Application development and deployment has been limited, however, by the need to interoperate with any of a variety of integrated library systems. In 2008, a Digital Library Federation task group published a set of recommendations for standard functions that could be used by discovery applications to obtain metadata and other services from any ILS. They included a basic level of ILS-application interoperability that was endorsed by most ILS vendors, as well as more advanced levels that may allow even richer interactions in the future.

YALSA Discussion & Interest Group Open House: 4:00 - 5:30: Want to get more involved in YALSA? All of YALSA's Discussion and Interest Groups will be at this event. Come learn a little about each and decide which one(s) you'd like to opt into, or learn how to start a new one. Room: Colorado Convention Center Room 203.